Recreated by Kim A. Smith @kimsmith313

Can we communicate with the dead? That’s the ancient question Louie Huey and Chloe Robertson set out to answer in Recreated.

Their interest in after-death communication comes about when a friend receives email messages from her dead husband from a Celestial.com address that contain intimate information known only to the two of them. Are they coming from her husband in the hereafter or a sick stalker?

Louie and Chloe find no creditable scientific evidence that after-death communication is possible. But they interview dozens of ordinary people who claim they are regularly in contact with the dead. All of these people can’t be lying or delusional. Or can they?

Major personal complications beset their investigation, which delay its completion for 10 years. In the end, they reach a conclusion about after-death communication that is more complicated than either of them could have foreseen.

Anyone who yearns for one more talk with a special lost loved one should read Recreated. That person may be trying to contact you.

About the Author:
Kim A. Smith was born in London, England, but raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in a mixed-country family by an English mother and an American father. He earned an interdisciplinary doctorate in political science and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired in 2009 after a 30-year career teaching journalism and political communication at four universities. Since he retired, he has used his free time to contemplate the meaning of life and to write.